#race matters

[circuitmouse]

#san luis obispo #Texture #race matters

[the-book-of-malik7]

Race Matters is a social sciences book by Cornel West. The book was first published on April 1, 1993, by Beacon Press. The book analyzes moral authority and racial debates concerning skin color in the United States. The book questions matters of economics and politics, as well as ethical issues and spirituality, and also addresses the crisis in black American leadership.

#cornel west #race matters #publication

[ryssbelle]

Thought of this while at work, sorry it's a bit hard to read I sketched it out really fast before my last shift lmao wanted to get it done so I could work on other stuff hehe

If it's any consultation Floyd is mostly talking about himself

#my art #trolls #dreamworks trolls #brozone #trolls 3 #trolls floyd #trolls john dory #trolls branch #trolls poppy #the way i imagine their 20 years in troll village is that one meme where its the two different nothing in life matters pics #but one is super sad and the other is happy looking and radical #thats floyd and jd #but they switch places depending on the day #branch is a secret third option #also idk what id do with the 3rd movies plot #this scene in my head is 3rd movie era but i like havent decided what theyre doing yet #theres a few possibilities on whos in the bottle or if theres a bottle at all #this would take place in a timeline where clay or bruce is in the bottle #but like heres the thing any of the brothers could be bottled and itd make for a good story #i drift more towards clay only for the irony of finding out your brothers alive but its a race against time cuz hes literally dying #so it adds to the urgency but then its not much adventure cuz they just gotta get bruce and go #cuz we have 3/5 brozone here already #same goes for if its bruce #so like for story purposes that means it would be most likely JD or Floyd which is just most aus and canon #cuz after world tour Floyd would travel with JD on their own tour Floyd going solo with JD as his manager #and in this scenario they came back to tell Branch about finding whoever is in the bottle #but the story of these guys could also work without any bottle so idk we'll just have to see what i decide to do later #also im slowly coming up with a name for this #very slowly but it'll happen #i actually have a google doc that has a name so i may just use that

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

-fae

#black lives matter #blm #black lives still matter #tulsa race massacre #tulsa riots

[monahvee]

Let's Get Uncomfortable

Let’s Get Uncomfortable

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#Growth #Race Matters #Understanding

[mimi-0007]

#tulsa oklahoma #black tumblr #race riots #tulsa #black history #black literature #black community #civil rights #black history is american history #american history #black wallstreet #black history matters #black history month

[violet-moonstone]

this scene in "a matter of perspective" was so funny to me

hiccup's trying to talk vaguely about dragons getting old and dying so as not to upset toothless and toothless just stares at him sarcastically like - my guy i know what death is, you dont need to baby me

#rtte #race to the edge #rtte screenshots #a matter of perspective #hiccup #hiccup haddock #toothless #httyd #how to train your dragon

[the-last-hipopotamovolador]

Okey a lot of fucking disgusting stuff are happening all around the world. The genocide of palestinians, the new anti queer law in russia, the congo situation and god knows how many other fucking disgusting inhumane shit is happening in so many places right now.

LISTEN i know that even for people like me who arent victims of any of these situations everything can be so overwhelming right now, and that we may feel hopless and we just dont wanna do anything anymore because everything seems pointless.

BUT FOR THE LOVE OF WHATEVER YOU BELIVE DO NOT BACK THE FUCK DOWN!

Like me, so many other people of the world (even if we belong to a "minority" and for that suffer daily discrimination) we are lucky enought to be ALLOWED to exist because for fucking coincidence we live in places where our goverments or/and the international powers allow us to just fucking be alive.

But there are so many people who the only thing tthey did was being born and for that the goverments decide that they should not exist.

If you were born in palestina to Israel and most of the world you arent fucking allowed to be alive.

If you are queer and were born in russia your fucking goverment says that you are not allowed to be alive.

If you are black in congo you are not allowed to be alive.

If you are native, for most of the goverments in the america continent you are not allowed to be alive.

And if you are a person with vulva/ you are a woman you are not allowed to be alive in most of the fucking world.

And so, so, so many more examples could be add because in this fucking sick world just being ALLOWED to be alive is a privilege.

So PLEASE I BEG YOU, IF YOU ARE IN A POSITION WERE YOUR MERE EXISTENCE IS ALLOWED (even for the dislike of some people) PLEASE, EVEN IF IT HURTS JUST RAGE, SPEAK THE FUCK UP! DONT BE QUIET!

If there are ambassadors of Israel in your country or/and from any other country that prohibits the existence of people, go and RAGE! GO AND DEMAND A CHANGE!.

If YOUR COUNTRY is in ANY way supporting the fact that some groups have the power to decide whether or not some people should be allowed to exist GO AND SCREAM AND SHOUT AND FUKING RAGE.

We have the previlege of being allowed to exist, is our human obligation to speak and shout for those who doesnt have that privilege and arent heared.

#mio #russia #rusian #lgbtq+ #queer rights #race #racisim #israel #palestine #free palestine #free gaza #human rights #women rights #trans rights #free congo #congo #activism #politics #black lives matter #black power #genocide #black women #africa #middle east #all the power to the people #sick world #sick sad world #rage #arabic #social justice

[mermazeablaze]

I thought some of my Tumblr mutuals would be interested to see this article.

Viola Ford Fletcher, aged 109, just published a memoir 'Don't Let Them Bury My Story' about her experience during the Greenwood/Tulsa Massacre. It will be available for purchase August 15th.

"Her memoir, “Don’t Let Them Bury My Story,” is a call to action for readers to pursue truth, justice and reconciliation no matter how long it takes. Written with graphic details of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that she witnessed at age seven, Fletcher said she hoped to preserve a narrative of events that was nearly lost to a lack of acknowledgement from mainstream historians and political leaders.

The questions I had then remain to this day,” Fletcher writes in the book. “How could you just give a mob of violent, crazed, racist people a bunch of deadly weapons and allow them — no, encourage them — to go out and kill innocent Black folks and demolish a whole community?”

“As it turns out, we were victims of a lie,” she writes.

Fletcher notes in her memoir just how much history she has lived through — from several virus outbreaks preceding the coronavirus pandemic, to the Great Depression of 1929 and the Great Recession of 2008 to every war and international conflict of the last seven decades. She has watched the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. lead the national Civil Rights Movement, seen the historic election of former President Barack Obama and witnessed the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement."

#Tulsa Race Massacre #Tulsa Race Riot #Greenwood #Black Wall Street #1921 #Oklahoma #Viola Ford Fletcher #Don't Let Them Bury My Story #Book #Memoir #Novel #Library #History #Black Lives Matter #BLM

[promiscuousasexual]

interesting

#honestly this doesn’t surprise me #but also no matter what team you’re probably always gonna at least listen to the other offers #but do you think they were sitting in each other’s driver rooms whispering about leaving #they’re complaining to each other on the phone throughout the break #i like to think they were giggling about it #kind of hope they still end up on the same team #that would be amazing #esteban ocon #pierre gasly #eo31 #eo #pg10 #pg #alpine f1 #alpine #alpine racing #formula 1 #f1 #formula one

[tomorrowusa]

Don't risk a rerun of the 2000 election.

In the first presidential election of the 21st century many deluded progressives voted for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader.

Their foolishness gave us eight years of George W. Bush who plagued the country with two recessions (including the Great Recession) and two wars (one totally unnecessary and one which could have been avoided if he heeded an intelligence brief 5 weeks before 9/11).

Oh yeah, Dubya also appointed one conservative and one batshit crazy reactionary to the US Supreme Court. Roberts and Alito are still there.

Paul Waldman of the Washington Post offers some thoughts.

Why leftists should work their hearts out for Biden in 2024

Ask a Democrat with a long memory what the numbers 97,488 and 537 represent, and their face will twist into a grimace. The first is the number of votes Ralph Nader received in Florida in 2000 as the nominee of the Green Party; the second is the margin by which George W. Bush was eventually certified the winner of the state, handing him the White House. Now, with President Biden gearing up for reelection, talk of a spoiler candidate from the left is again in the air. That’s unfortunate, because here’s the truth: The past 2½ years under Biden have been a triumph for progressivism, even if it’s not in most people’s interest to admit it. This was not what most people expected from Biden, who ran as a relative moderate in the 2020 Democratic primary. His nomination was a victory for pragmatism with its eyes directed toward the center. But today, no one can honestly deny that Biden is the most progressive president since at least Lyndon B. Johnson. His judicial appointments are more diverse than those of any of his predecessors. He has directed more resources to combating climate change than any other president. Notwithstanding the opposition from the Supreme Court, his administration has moved aggressively to forgive and restructure student loans.

Three years ago the economy was in horrible shape because of Trump's mishandling of the pandemic. Now unemployment is steadily below 4%, job creation continues to exceed expectations, and wages are rising as unions gain strength. The post-pandemic, post-Afghan War inflation rate has receded to near normal levels; people in the 1970s would have sold their souls for a 3.2% (and dropping) inflation rate. And many of the effects of "Bidenomics" have yet to kick in.

And in a story that is criminally underappreciated, his administration’s policy reaction to the covid-induced recession of 2020 was revolutionary in precisely the ways any good leftist should favor. It embraced massive government intervention to stave off the worst economic impacts, including handing millions of families monthly checks (by expanding the child tax credit), giving all kids in public schools free meals, boosting unemployment insurance and extending health coverage to millions.

It worked. While inflation rose (as it did worldwide), the economy’s recovery has been blisteringly fast. It took more than six years for employment rates to return to what they were before the Great Recession hit in 2008, but we surpassed January 2020 jobs levels by the spring of 2022 — and have kept adding jobs ever since. To the idealistic leftist, that might feel like both old news and a partial victory at best. What about everything supporters of Bernie Sanders have found so thrilling about the Vermont senator’s vision of the future, from universal health care to free college? It’s true Biden was never going to deliver that, but to be honest, neither would Sanders had he been elected president. And that brings me to the heart of how people on the left ought to think about Biden and his reelection.

Biden has gotten things done. The US economy is doing better than those of almost every other advanced industrialized country.

Our rivals China and Russia are both worse off than they were three years ago. And NATO is not just united, it's growing.

Sadly, we still need to deal with a far right MAGA cult at home who would wreck the country just to get its own way.

Biden may be elderly and unexciting, but that is one of the reasons he won in 2020. Many people just wanted an end to the daily drama of Trump's capricious and incompetent rule by tweet. And a good portion of those people live in places that count greatly in elections – suburbs and exurbs.

Superhero films seem to be slipping in popularity. Hopefully that's a sign that voters are less likely to embrace self-appointed political messiahs to save them from themselves.

Good governance is a steady process – not a collection of magic tricks. Experienced and competent individuals who are not too far removed from the lives of the people they represent are the best people to have in government.

Paul Waldman concludes his column speaking from the heart as a liberal...

I’ve been in and around politics for many years, and even among liberals, I’ve almost always been one of the most liberal people in the room. Yet only since Biden’s election have I realized that I will probably never see a president as liberal as I’d like. It’s not an easy idea to make peace with. But it suggests a different way of thinking about elections — as one necessary step in a long, difficult process. The further you are to the left, the more important Biden’s reelection ought to be to you. It might require emotional (and policy) compromise, but for now, it’s also the most important tool you have to achieve progressive ends.

Exactly. Rightwingers take the long view. It took them 49 years but they eventually got Roe v. Wade overturned. To succeed, we need to look upon politics as an extended marathon rather as one short sprint.

Republicans may currently be bickering, but they will most likely unite behind whichever anti-abortion extremist they nominate.

It's necessary to get the word out now that the only way to defeat climate-denying, abortion-restricting, assault weapon-loving, race-baiting, homophobic Republicans is to vote Democratic.

#paul waldman #liberalism #election 2000 #election 2024 #joe biden #third parties #vote blue no matter who #donald trump #dumpster fire #trumpster fire #fascism vs. democracy #nra republicans #abortion #climate change #lgbtq+ rights #race-baiting #take the political long view #phil hands

[romantichomicide95]

when i was 13 my boyfriends father called me a nubian princess. i didn’t know where that was, all i knew was that he called me this because i was black. it made me uncomfortable but i smiled anyway.

when i was 13 i was molested by a boy i liked and his friend who were younger than me. i smiled through because i wanted the boy to like me.

when i was 15 i wore a bandana over my natural hair at school and was called into the office because it didn’t represent the school properly, but my friends wore them over their straight hair.

when i was 16 a girl in my class told me there was no way i could be a ni**er or get offended because that was only reserved for dark skinned men.

when i was 17 my boyfriends mother complimented how well spoken i was for someone like me.

when i was 19 i was raped by someone i thought was a friend, and i still can barely remember.

when i was 20 i fell asleep at my boyfriends and while he went to get beer his best friend assaulted me.

at every age i was told how beautiful i was “for a black girl”, how surprising it was that i was so pretty. how absolutely mind boggling it was for me to prefer something other than rap music.

i was never bullied.

i was well-liked.

i had a lot of friends.

i had a lot of male attention.

i had an amazing high school experience.

-but i still had these things happens. no matter how good my experience was i still had bad things happen. we really need to start striving towards a place of understanding and acceptance before we place judgement on each other. it’s extremely crucial to pause and reflect before we start handing out judgement and resorting to harmful actions. everyone has a story much like mine, so instead of hate let’s come together and learning empathy and respect because that is what creates a safer space for everyone.

remember behind every username is a real person, an individual with hopes, dreams, fears struggles just like you. let’s start choosing compassion. let’s stop calling each other names and making accusations…because this divide that keeps happening isn’t doing anyone any good.

again…behind every username is a real person.

#personal #race relations #black lives matter #feminism #mental illness #mental health

[bnwo-warrior]

It's instinctual that all worship black ♠️

#bnwo #black new world order #bnwo propaganda #black history #black history month #qos #queen of spades #blm #black lives matter #wldm #white lives don't matter #black power #black supremacy #race traitor

[csphire]

If you're the type to go out of your way to shit on someone's else's Tav or Durge's looks or say they shouldn't be with a particular companion because of how they look odd together-basically policing someone else's game and enjoyment of it in the fandom-kindly fuck off and feel free to block me too.

#the nerve of some people #good luck with getting commissions with that snobby highschooler mean girl attitude #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #already blocked them #gate keepers can fuck off #what the hells is the matter with some people? #we don't need this shit in the BG3 fandom #not cool #💅🖕 #reblog if you agree #all body sizes and dnd races are beautiful #this game is about wish fulfillment #no gatekeepers in Baldur’s Gate please

[monahvee]

High Definition

When I was a kid, roughly 7 years old, my mother had these two friends that would come around every now and then. These young ladies were not attractive to me in the least bit. One lady looked like she may have been Native American or Puerto Rican, with a major nicotine addiction, she was a Pisces like me, and the other lady was Black, kinda resembled Arsenio Hall in the face and hairstyle, no…

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#Identity #Kindness #Race Matters #Social Definition #Understanding

[mimi-0007]

#chicago #race riots #black tumblr #black history #black literature #black excellence #black community #civil rights #black history is american history #black history matters #black history month